{"id":814681,"date":"2026-10-26T19:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814681\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:04:14","slug":"flood-warnings-and-water-shortages-for-kent-and-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814681\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood warnings and water shortages for Kent and Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A flood warning has been issued for parts of West Sussex, while residents in Kent are without water, following Storm Boelo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">High tides and strong winds are expected to cause flooding in the coastal areas of Bosham and West Itchenor, including Chidham, Broadbridge, and Bosham Hoe at around 11:00 GMT on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the government&#8217;s website, it will affect Shore Road, Bosham High Street and Gloucester Terrace, with residents urged to &#8220;activate any flood protection products they may have&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition, people in the Benenden area of Kent have &#8220;low water pressure or no water&#8221; as a result of South East Water (SEW) &#8220;experiencing issues at the local Mounts Hill booster site&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm said it is &#8220;working to resolve the problem&#8221; by &#8220;setting up tankers in the area&#8221; to &#8220;restore temporary supplies&#8221; to 15 affected properties &#8220;while we complete the necessary repairs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Bottled water has been delivered to these properties, and further deliveries are being made today,&#8221; added Matthew Dean, SEW&#8217;s incident manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flood warning has been issued for parts of West Sussex, while residents in Kent are without water,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}